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JB Moore Storm Pattern Navajo Rug, Ca. 1920-1930

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Textiles Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
JB Moore Storm Pattern Navajo Rug, Ca. 1920-1930
This JB Moore Storm Pattern Navajo Rug, Ca. 1920-1930, is a variant of the 1911 Moore Catalogue, Plate XXVIII (28) weaving with a whirling log border all around. Hand woven from all native handspun and hand dyed Churro cross sheep wool on a wool warp. Includes pictorial water bugs on each end. At the time of weaving, whirling logs crossing each other was a sacred symbol used in Southwest Native Amercian weavings, baskets, pottery, and jewelry connotating the four directions (north, south, east, & west) and the winds from them. The whirling log symbol is seen as a symbol of good luck or well-being, friendship, and the four stages of life: birth, youth, old age, and death. Since 1940, the Navajo, Hopi, Papago, & Apache people stopped incorporating the whirling log symbols in their crafts due to their beloved symbol looking so much like the Nazi swastika. The Navajo signed a proclamation stating "Because the above ornament, which has been a symbol of friendship among our forefathers for many centuries, has been desecrated by another nation of peoples, therefore it is resolved that henceforth from this date on and forever more our tribes renounce the use of the emblem commonly known today as the swastika or fylfot on our blankets, baskets, art objects, sand paintings and clothing."
Measurements: 70"x42"

Provenance: New Mexico Ranch Collection